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Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal
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Atsuhito Kohda |
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Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal |
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Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:19:00 +0900 (JST) |
Hi Vincent, I'm not an appropriate person to answer
and the followings are only my guess.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:52:41 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Ummmm, okay, I see. So this is an intended behavior.
>
> Is it really an intended behavior or just a typo that just hasn't been
> noticed so far?
Perhaps yes, an intended behavior.
> > So the intention is to distinguish the minus sign from
> > the hyphen, am I right?
>
> Wait... with the above choice, how do you distinguish the minus sign
> from a space followed by an hyphen?
Maybe, usually, a hypen is directly connected to a letter
and never(?) connected to a space, so one can understand easily
that a space followed by a hyphen is not a hyphen itself.
On the contrary, the minus sign admits, as a binary operator,
small spacing around it. If you use/know TeX you can guess
what I mean.
> I think that there shouldn't be a need to distinguish them: the
I guess the upstream will do as you request if I understand
correctly.
Thanks and regards, 2007-6-14(Thu)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
- [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Atsuhito Kohda, 2007/06/12
- Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Thomas Dickey, 2007/06/12
- Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Atsuhito Kohda, 2007/06/13
- Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Walter Ian Kaye, 2007/06/13
- Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Thomas Dickey, 2007/06/13
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/06/13
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal,
Atsuhito Kohda <=
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Atsuhito Kohda, 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Thomas Dickey, 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, PBM ., 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, PBM ., 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, hsv, 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, hsv, 2007/06/14
- Re: Bug#428536: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, hsv, 2007/06/14
Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, Henry Nelson, 2007/06/15